One of the biggest hindrances to hearing the voice of God is that we allow someone else to do it for us. You see, it doesn’t matter if an apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher, elder, deacon, or Grand Poobah thinks that he has heard the voice of God for us, we must still hear His voice for ourselves. It’s part of our new birthright in Christ to do so.

An infamous example of allowing a leader to usurp believers’ positions of hearing the voice of God for themselves was Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. Over 900 members committed suicide on November 18, 1978, because of Jones’ belief that he heard God’s voice for everyone.

Yes, Jim Jones is a very extreme example, but according to scripture, there is only One who is allowed between us and God:

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5)

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Sadly, in Christianity one doesn’t have to be anything like a Jim Jones and yet still spiritually smother his people. Jeremiah 5:31 speaks today as it did in days past. Until we begin to hate “to have it so” the church cannot be the witness it ought to be.